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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: "Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: UML kernel failed to start betvee 2.6.8-rc8 and current git sources
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:30:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080710193019.GA20112@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807102010.02772.toralf.foerster@gmx.de>

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:09:59PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> At Thursday 10 July 2008 18:35:15 Jeff Dike wrote :
> 
> > What's the host?
> 
> tfoerste@n22 ~ $ uname -a
> Linux n22 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 #4 Thu Jul 10 19:49:36 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 
> BTW,  this works fine and shows only the config :
> n22 ~ # linux-v2.6.26-rc8-227 --showconfig 
> 
> whereas this failed:
> 
> n22 ~ # linux-v2.6.26-rc9-56 --showconfig
> Locating the bottom of the address space ... 0x0
> Locating the top of the address space ... 0xc0000000

OK, I believe you're seeing the same bug as Uli saw here:

    http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121011518003727&w=2

More precise symptoms are here:

     http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121011722806093&w=2

I never did figure that one out.  I had the same kernel version, same
toolchain, same everything as far as I could see, and I couldn't
reproduce it, except with a binary that he gave me.

You're seeing it on i386, whereas he saw it on x86_64.

The underlying problem is that somehow the UML initcalls aren't being
run, which is why you're seeing all zeros in the register dump.

If you bisect this, I bet you end up at the no-unit-at-a-time patch
that he ended up at.  And I have no idea what that has to do with
anything.

				Jeff

-- 
Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-10 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-10 14:19 UML kernel failed to start betvee 2.6.8-rc8 and current git sources Toralf Förster
2008-07-10 16:35 ` Jeff Dike
     [not found]   ` <200807102010.02772.toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
2008-07-10 19:30     ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2008-07-11  8:43       ` Toralf Förster
2008-07-10 16:58 ` [uml-devel] " Jeff Dike
2008-07-10 17:34   ` Toralf Förster
2008-07-10 18:52     ` Jeff Dike

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